Sunday, 29 June 2008

Frustration with the near pathetic state of the official Wimbledon website and a strong urge to visualize the draws of the ongoing championships resulted in three very long nights and me designing my own Wimbledon draws charts. Do check them out.

Thursday, 19 June 2008

Surprising how we often underestimate — and at times downright ignore — natural mapping in the virtual world. I know I was a happier man when I realised Leopard (unlike Tiger) preserved the icon positions of my external hard disks on my desktop; I don’t keep a centered dock because it keeps shifting all the icons when the number of items change, I keep it at a screen corner because that at least affords me fixed positioning for stuff like the Trash, Downloads and Applications folders. (Via Zeldman)

Friday, 6 June 2008

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

From J.K. Rowling’s commencement address to this year’s Harvard graduates. Watch the video stream if you have a decent connection.

I hope they stop fussing over this now and move on to racing. It’s sad that Formula 1 has been in the news for all the wrong reasons (Ferrari–McLaren Spygate, Alonso–Hamilton rivalry and Mosley’s Nazi orgy) in the last two years. With quite a few organisations disappointed at the outcome and threatening to withdraw, doesn’t look like this case is closing anytime soon.

In the re-telling of this classic fable, the story begins at the end. Chief Grizzly and Detective Bill Stork investigate a domestic disturbance at Grannys cottage, involving a karate-kicking Red Riding Hood, a sarcastic wolf and an oafish Woodsman.